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Jesper de Jong
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Jesper de Jong's personal blog at jesperdj.com covers programming. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jesper de Jong's 2015 posts as background on Java's Project Valhalla and proposed value types. Commenters cite them as references for the proposal, not as reviews.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-22
What Hacker News says?
I mean "value types" https://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-t... & http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html I don't know what you mean by "copy-only types." I'm not finding any reference to that terminology in the context of language design.
Comment linking /2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/
on “Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust”There's a proposal to fix this by adding value types to the JVM. It's part of something called “Project Valhalla”. http://jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/
Comment linking /2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/
on “C Is Not a Low-Level Language”And memory used will be hopefully quite lower with value types, coming sometime in the future: http://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-ty...
Comment linking /2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/
on “Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps”That's another proposed change in Java 10, both part of Project Valhalla: http://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/12/project-valhalla-generic-...
Comment linking /2015/10/12/project-valhalla-generic-specialization/
on “Java 10 – Specification for Value Types”> I think that the "lack of value types" is probably an overrated difference these days. Well, seems that the JVM designers disagree, there's been a lot of work put into fixing this, see 'Project Valhalla' for instance https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/11/valhalla-Implementation-p... http://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-ty...
Comment linking /2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-types/
on “A Look at the Internals of 'Tiered JIT Compilation' in .NET Core”